Enrolling to vote the 'digital' way

Enrolling to vote or changing your enrolment address can be a pain in the behind if you don't want to leave your house, which is why ZDNet Australia has decided to show how it can be done in an almost — yet not totally — "digital" way.

blog Enrolling to vote or changing your enrolment address can be a pain in the behind if you don't want to leave your house, which is why ZDNet Australia has decided to show how it can be done in an almost — yet not totally — "digital" way.

With the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) saying 1.4 million people are "missing" from the electoral role — the majority being people aged between 18 and 19 — my colleague Josh and I thought we'd create a tutorial showing how to enrol, which doesn't require you to leave your house. Bonus!

All in all it took us around 10 minutes. Pretty good I thought.

We originally thought you'd have to post your completed form to the AEC, but that isn't the case.

The AEC has adopted email, and, provided you can scan a copy of your completed form, downloadable via PDF, you can send a copy of it to your local AEC branch.

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Step 4

Now that you've signed your form and placed the date that you signed onto it, you'll need to scan a copy of it.

Scan your enrolment form(Credit: Josh Taylor/ZDNet Australia)

Step 5

We're almost there! Now all you need to do is send your scanned form via email to your local AEC office. To do so, you'll need to put your postcode into a tool at the bottom of the page linked here. It will give you the email address you need to email your form to.

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